Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 2 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 3 | ‘ So far in our investigation we are aware of at least ten loyalist prisoners who have been interviewed by the same policemen . |
| 4 | Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’ |
| 5 | It features beautiful and accurate facsimiles of the treasures of Tutankhamun , including the famous gold burial mask , specially produced for the Exhibition , many of which have been made from the same materials and in the same way as the originals . |
| 6 | Rico Gopul , a staff nurse in the villa at the time of the alleged incidents , told the tribunal he had been accused of the same offences as Mr Reid but had received only a written warning . |
| 7 | Once you 've been going to the same shops a lot , y'know , just standing around and not buying anything , they get to know you . |
| 8 | And the same amount of things per head of the population will have been produced in the same ways by the same classes of people for many generations together ; and therefore this supply of the appliances for production will have had full time to be adjusted to the steady demand . |
| 9 | Previously , items such as tea , coffee , cocoa , sugar , jam , canned fruit , salmon and sardines had been sold from the same counters as their perishable equivalents . |
| 10 | The genesis of political consciousness towards conservation programmes arose in very different circumstances , but its development has been moving in the same directions as family planning programmes . |
| 11 | In this respect his art and that of the New Sculptors differed little from the earlier romantic neo-classicism of a sculptor like , whose work would nevertheless have been decried by the same practitioners as cold and outmoded . |
| 12 | Well I think there is , there are n't many problem with the trained people because they 've been trained in the same areas as oneself and therefore understand what you 're on about . |
| 13 | From the beginning Jarrad had been run by the same directors as Jesner and run in good faith in what the directors perceived to be in the family 's interest . |
| 14 | post-war instructions from Moscow ( the Comintern had been dissolved in 1943 ) were to maintain the policy of cooperation with democratic forces which had been implemented during the latter stages of the war . |
| 15 | Nor need this group have been composed of the same households throughout : as the fortunes of different employments fluctuated so different groups could have been included at different times . |
| 16 | Ward must have been thinking along the same lines , for as the road flattened out and the mist began to glimmer with a strange brightness , he said something about the Promised Land . |
| 17 | This year I 've been thinking about the many faces of the moon and the wonderfully romantic and lovely patterns you can achieve with the moon as your theme , whether it 's a slender crescent or full harvest , hunter 's or honey moon . |
| 18 | It was after the Indian team had begun their experiments that they learned about Jones and how his experiments had been motivated by the same ideas as Chatterjee had had . |
| 19 | He recalled the incident in the boiler room when both Pearce and he had been assailed by the same noises that Beaton had heard . |
| 20 | From that group , George Chinnery 's portrait of two unidentified boys with a pony ( lot 66 , est. £50,000–80,000 ) reached £35,000 , having been purchased in the same rooms in 1989 for £60,000 . |
| 21 | This opposition — most vigorous in Britain and the US — to the extension of social rights as an essential feature of democracy will be considered more fully later ( see Chapter 6 ) , together with various countervailing movements which have found expression in the modest proposals of the European Community for a ‘ social charter ’ , and increasingly in the demands of new socialist parties and allied groups in the East European countries for the safeguarding of those important rights which had been established by the former regimes . |
| 22 | Two points are worth remembering from all this : perfect swims do n't last forever and for every one that declines another will have been changed by the same forces into an excellent one . |